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More than six of the primary self-taught Florida Highwaymen artists, known for their stylistic Florida landscape paintings, will be in Mount Dora this weekend for the 11th Highwaymen Art Show, Sale and Benefit. The event is at the Donnelly Park Building, 530 N. Donnelly St., from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 10-11. Admission is free. The Highwaymen (25 black men and one woman) were from the Fort Pierce area and took to the highways to sell their paintings in the 1950s and '60s. The artists painted fast in their back yards and garages using brushes, knives and fingers to paint pictures of leaning palm trees, bright red Poinciana trees, churning oceans and vibrant...

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More than six of the primary self-taught Florida Highwaymen artists, known for their stylistic Florida landscape paintings, will be in Mount Dora this weekend for the 11th Highwaymen Art Show, Sale and Benefit.
The event is at the Donnelly Park Building,...

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